This is a good day to die. Follow me!
SITTING BULLThis is a good day to die. Follow me!
SITTING BULLOur religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all have a different God. Why cannot we have one of our own?
SITTING BULLGod made me an Indian.
SITTING BULLWhat white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
SITTING BULLWhat white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?
SITTING BULLThis nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
SITTING BULLI want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.
SITTING BULLI know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
SITTING BULLBehold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!
SITTING BULLI was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
SITTING BULLThe life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or food, that is as good as the right to move in the open country and live in our fashion.
SITTING BULLI am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.
SITTING BULLYou come here to tell us lies, but we don’t want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say.
SITTING BULLWhat white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
SITTING BULLThey claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.
SITTING BULLIs it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?
SITTING BULL